Renzo Piano

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May 21, 2015602

by Mark Di Suvero

Manhattan is currently undergoing a construction boom so extensive that not since the skyscraper rush of the 1920s has the city's skyline been faced with the potential for so much massive transformation.

But we are living in a new Gilded Age, and not surprisingly, most of the pencil-thin, sky-high constructions rising from the street, and designed by the latest international "starchitects," are reserved for the world's billionaires.